Book ReviewMedical Nemesis: The expropriation of health.
- 13 February 1975
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 292 (7) , 375
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197502132920727
Abstract
Having advocated Deschooling Society (Harper and Row, New York, 1970) Ivan Illich now urges its demedicalization. Without such a purge, the author maintains, society will remain sick, very sick, because of its dependence on medicine, its drugs and its machines. In our "over-industrialized society, people are conditioned to get things rather than to do them. They want to be taught, moved, treated or guided rather than learn, heal and find their own way." They "are trained for consumption rather than for action." So, "After sick care, health care has become a commodity, something one gets rather than something one does." . . .Keywords
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